Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 07, 2023

Mark has a price.

Is Chase worth $75 mil?

Mark isn’t exactly acing the “test” here.

Not gay, but if that was the ultimatum, well…pop ain’t invited to the wedding. :/ I’ve lived paycheck to paycheck my whole life. Plus, animal shelters need all the help they can get. Sounds like a win-win to me!

No.

Wait ’til he dies.

Mark’s bigoted old man can just shove his $$$ up his @ss!!

Ah, back in 1999, when $ 75 million actually meant something.

What’s Daddy’s life expectancy?

Didn’t Dad go broke and go to jail in the ‘80s for illegal trading practices? He’s certainly rebounded since.

Giving all the $$$ to puppies and what about Mom?

an’ that wuz back when 75 million was alot

He’s trying to drag you down to his level, Mark – don’t take the bait!

No matter how happy you are with your life before someone offers you more money, you are never quite the same.

Well, there’s no guarantee that Mark was going to get a cent of it, anyway.

Live together in “sin” until the old man dies. Then get married.

“Son, I didn’t bring you into this world so that you could be your own person with your own hopes and dreams. I brought you into this world to continue my legacy, because death terrifies me and I need some sense of immorality to get through the day.”

You could live in a lot of sin for $75 million. :)

Depends on whether his last name is “Manhattan,”

From what we’ve seen of Chase, I’d think he’d be putting the money first.

I think Slackmeyer Senior ends up losing it all in a market crash, anyway. Or maybe he’s invested with Bernie Madoff.

Talk about “Scared Straight”.

So, a lot of y’all have probably already spotted this, but take a close look at the print on Duke’s Hawaiian shirt in the avatar for this page. A REALLY CLOSE look… ;)

I’d keep the $75 million

The Animal Society needs $75 million more than you two do.

Make a gesture with all the wrong legal ramifications (jail and probably losing their jobs) or maintain the current relationship and start planning Dad’s early demise?